By the eve of the Federal Convention, judicial review had laid down solid foundations in New Jersey, New Hampshire, and North Carolina. And even though further development of the practice was thwarted for several decades in New York, and for more than half a century in Rhode Island, the case of Trevett v. Weeden was nevertheless being cited as a precedent for judicial review beyond Rhode Island’s borders. It was mentioned with approval, for example, at the Federal Convention, where the Rhode Island legislature was condemned for “displacing” the judges who had engaged in it.1